Leadership Golden’s 2022 -23 Class
Begins this Fall.
Applications are open!
The Leadership Golden program is a free series of ten evening seminars spanning a nine-month period. These seminars facilitate opportunities for participants to increase their knowledge of the relationships between Golden’s government, education, arts, business, and the community of Golden. The program educates emerging leaders and volunteers to the realities, opportunities and challenges in Golden. To learn more and for application details go to www.LeadershipGolden.org. Apply now!
Questions: Call Jeff Fox at 720-891-5751
Meet & Greet
Leadership Golden Alumni and people interested in joining this fall’s class are invited to a Meet & Greet on Wednesday, July 13th, from 5:30-7PM at Golden City Brewery. Free appetizers, cash bar.
Real World Events
10AM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM, 1PM, and 4PM Wild West Short Tour
4PM Wild West Short Tour
11-9:30PM 4th of July Celebration in Lions Park
The Golden Lions Club is organizing and hosting the 4th of July community celebration in Lions Park again this year. This is one of the major ways for the Lions to give back to the Golden community and our country. The celebration is designed to be a day for families, friends and neighbors to get together at the beautiful park on 10th Street to picnic or purchase food and drink from American Legion Golden Post 21, five specialty food trucks, cold Coors and Golden City Brewery beer, Bonacquisti Wines (Denver’s Urban Winery) and enjoy all the festivities. Because of fire danger, there will be no fireworks tonight.
Music:
11:15AM Star Spangled Banner
11:30AM to 2:30PM Meniscus (Rock Nouveau)
3-6PM Ryan Chrys & the Rough Cuts (Modern Outlaw Country)
6:30 – 9:30PM Something Underground (Rock)
If you park along 10th Street, the first two hours are free, and each additional hour is $2 to a maximum of $8/day. You MUST REGISTER your vehicle on the Park Mobile app or at a nearby pay station, even if you are planning to stay less than two hours.
There is FREE parking half a mile east, at 304 10th St. Additional parking is available in the parking garages located on Jackson Street, between 11th and 13th Streets.
More Music
2-5PM Abby Brown Golden Mill
4-7PM Whipkey @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
Golden History Moment
The Overland Hotel was built in the 1860s. It went through many owners over the next 20 years until, sometime in the 1880s, Edward Berthoud (as in Berthoud pass, the town of Berthoud, and Berthoud Hall on the School of Mines campus) bought it. He kept his office and residence on the second floor of the building, and rented out store spaces on the street level. In 1908, at the age of 81, Berthoud fell down the stairs while holding a lighted lamp. The building sustained some fire damage and Berthoud himself died two months later of his injuries.
The building was razed, and the lot stood empty for several years.
In 1922, Grant Churches built a garage on the spot, where he sold and serviced automobiles. In 1927, Churches converted the building to serve as an indoor pool. It was 100’x30′ and 3′ at the shallow end and 9′ at the deep end. The business was popular, but it failed during the Depression.
The Plunge was re-opened by new owners in 1935, and again, it struggled. It was a tourist attraction, so local businessmen wanted the city to buy it and use it as a rec center.
84 Years Ago
Elwood Romney, a coach at the School of Mines, found local investors and reopened the pool. The grand opening was on July 4th, 1938. In the fall of 1939, he built a floor over the pool, so the building could be used during the winter for roller skating, dancing, basketball, etc. The following spring he removed the floor (and sold the lumber) and re-opened the pool.
A labor union bought the building in 1941 and renamed it the Labor Temple. They used it for their own meetings and rented it for community events. In 1943, the union was ready to sell the building, and once again businessmen tried to get the city to buy it as a rec center. The building was still used for dances, and during WWII it was the home of a scrap drive.
In 1944, Leonard Vogel of the Coors Company bought the Stewart building (the one at 10th & Washington with the Indian painted on the side) and donated it to the community as a recreation center, so that ended talk of the City buying The Plunge.
The building was reopened as Eakers Department Store in 1953. They remained in operation until 1988. When they closed, it was purchased by the owners of the Buffalo Rose to be used as an events center.
So the big question: is there still a swimming pool under the Rose? There is! I have seen it! It may not look quite as you’re picturing it. It’s not tiled, it’s smooth concrete. The “deep end” is on the east side of the building, and the floor slants up to the shallow end, on the Washington Avenue side. The access point is a very steep, almost ladder-like staircase behind the stage in the events center.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
